NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs Intel HD 520

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs Intel HD 520, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

3464% significantly better overall score

148 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

126 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

2178% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4231 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

1772% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3998 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

2143% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3990 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

1847% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4427 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

339% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

97% significantly higher boost clock speed

900 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

15 W

1033% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

3059% significantly higher pixel rate

2.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

821% significantly higher texture rate

21.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

1766% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

366% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

1500% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

472nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs HD 520 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU is faster than the HD 520 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the HD 520 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 over the HD 520.